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Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-12 16:15:28
Mark Andrews wrote:

The problem with email is people use html way too much.  TXT ->
HTML -> TXT does not work reliable.  Too many one way transformations.

That's enough to deny the following statement of Doug Ewell;

        You could have HTML or PDF-A that uses nothing but ASCII
        characters.

Note also that the wrong conversion is by Tim Bray who says:

I will commit to offering some cycles to help with tools
and specs, as appropriate.

How much reliability, do you think, the tools and specs will have?

                                                        Masataka Ohta

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